Numbers 15 - English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)

Laws About Sacrifices

15 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ^(A)When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, ³ and ^(B)you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering^[a] or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, ^(C)to fulfil a vow or as a freewill offering or ^(D)at your appointed feasts, to make a ^(E)pleasing aroma to the Lord, ⁴ then ^(F)he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord ^(G)a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah^[b] of fine flour, ^(H)mixed with a quarter of a hin^[c] of oil; ⁵ and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of ^(I)wine for the drink offering for each lamb. ^{6 (J)}Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. ⁷ And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a ^(K)pleasing aroma to the Lord. ⁸ And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to ^(L)fulfil a vow or for ^(M)peace offerings to the Lord, ⁹ then one shall offer ^(N)with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil. ¹⁰ And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

^{11 (O)}“Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat. ¹² As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are. ¹³ Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. ¹⁴ And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he shall do as you do. ¹⁵ For the assembly, ^(P)there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord. ¹⁶ One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.”

¹⁷ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^{18 (Q)}“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you ¹⁹ and when you eat of ^(R)the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the Lord. ^{20 (S)}Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a ^(T)contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. ^{21 (U)}Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

^{22 (V)}“But if you sin unintentionally,^[d] and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses, ²³ all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations, ²⁴ then if it was done unintentionally ^(W)without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord, ^(X)with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and ^(Y)one male goat for a sin offering. ^{25 (Z)}And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake. ²⁶ And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

^{27 (AA)}“If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. ^{28 (AB)}And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. ^{29 (AC)}You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. ^{30 (AD)}But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹ Because he has ^(AE)despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”

A Sabbath-breaker Executed

³² While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man ^(AF)gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³ And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. ^{34 (AG)}They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. ³⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, ^(AH)“The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall ^(AI)stone him with stones outside the camp.” ³⁶ And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Tassels on Garments

³⁷ The Lord said to Moses, ³⁸ “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to ^(AJ)make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. ³⁹ And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, ^(AK)not to follow^[e] after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined ^(AL)to whore after. ⁴⁰ So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be ^(AM)holy to your God. ^{41 (AN)}I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”

Footnotes

1. Numbers 15:3 Or an offering by fire; so throughout Numbers
2. Numbers 15:4 An ephah was about 3/5 of a bushel or 22 litres
3. Numbers 15:4 A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 litres
4. Numbers 15:22 Or by mistake; also verses 24, 27, 28, 29
5. Numbers 15:39 Hebrew to spy out

Cross references

1. Numbers 15:2 : ver. 18; Lev. 23:10; Deut. 26:1
2. Numbers 15:3 : Lev. 1:2, 3
3. Numbers 15:3 : Lev. 22:21; 27:2
4. Numbers 15:3 : ch. 28:19, 27; Lev. 23:8, 12, 36; Deut. 16:10
5. Numbers 15:3 : Ex. 29:18; Lev. 4:31; See Gen. 8:21
6. Numbers 15:4 : Lev. 2:1; 6:14
7. Numbers 15:4 : Ex. 29:40; Lev. 23:13
8. Numbers 15:4 : ch. 28:5; Lev. 14:10
9. Numbers 15:5 : ch. 28:7, 14
10. Numbers 15:6 : ch. 28:12, 14
11. Numbers 15:7 : [See ver. 3 above]; Ex. 29:18; Lev. 4:31; See Gen. 8:21
12. Numbers 15:8 : [See ver. 3 above]; Lev. 22:21; 27:2
13. Numbers 15:8 : Lev. 7:11
14. Numbers 15:9 : ch. 28:12, 14; See Lev. 6:14-17
15. Numbers 15:11 : See ch. 28
16. Numbers 15:15 : ver. 29, 30; ch. 9:14; Ex. 12:49
17. Numbers 15:18 : ver. 2
18. Numbers 15:19 : [Josh. 5:11, 12]
19. Numbers 15:20 : Deut. 26:2, 10; Neh. 10:37; Ezek. 44:30
20. Numbers 15:20 : Lev. 2:14; See Lev. 23:10-17
21. Numbers 15:21 : [See ver. 20 above]; Deut. 26:2, 10; Neh. 10:37; Ezek. 44:30
22. Numbers 15:22 : [Lev. 4:2]
23. Numbers 15:24 : [Lev. 4:13]
24. Numbers 15:24 : ver. 8-10
25. Numbers 15:24 : ch. 28:15; Lev. 4:23
26. Numbers 15:25 : Lev. 4:20
27. Numbers 15:27 : Lev. 4:27, 28
28. Numbers 15:28 : Lev. 4:35
29. Numbers 15:29 : See ver. 15
30. Numbers 15:30 : [Deut. 17:12; Ps. 19:13; Heb. 10:26]
31. Numbers 15:31 : 2 Sam. 12:9; 2 Chr. 36:16; Prov. 13:13
32. Numbers 15:32 : Ex. 35:3; See Ex. 20:8, 9
33. Numbers 15:34 : Lev. 24:12
34. Numbers 15:35 : Ex. 31:14, 15
35. Numbers 15:35 : Lev. 24:14-16; Josh. 7:25; 1 Kgs. 21:13; Acts 7:58
36. Numbers 15:38 : Deut. 22:12; [Matt. 23:5]
37. Numbers 15:39 : [Job 31:7; Eccles. 11:9; Ezek. 6:9]
38. Numbers 15:39 : Ps. 73:27; 106:39; [Ezek. 6:9]
39. Numbers 15:40 : See Lev. 11:44
40. Numbers 15:41 : Lev. 22:33; See Lev. 20:8